Edited by David Coates

Over 275 entries

This is the first reference work to provide detailed, in-depth coverage of all aspects of American politics. Top scholars have written entries that surpass all previous reference material on the subject and provide scholars and students with ready access to sophisticated, comprehensive material. Long entries form the core of the book, covering such topics as climate change, terrorism, welfare policies, nuclear proliferation, voting behavior, and think tanks. Each of these entries includes high-level scrutiny of the literature, history, and future of the topic.

The Companion also includes a number of entries from The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Joel Krieger, 2001), revised as necessary to bring coverage of such topics as foreign aid and nuclear weapons up to date. In the current context of political gridlock, international tension, economic underperformance and social division, students of American politics need to focus on more than the inner workings of their own political institutions, important as that focus is. They also need to approach their work with as wide an understanding of our contemporary international and domestic economic, social, and cultural conditions as it is possible for them quickly and easily to acquire. The Oxford Companion to American Politics has been designed precisely to meet the full range of those needs.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:

2012

Print ISBN-13:

9780199764310

Published online:

2012

Current Online Version:

2012

DOI:

10.1093/acref/9780199764310.001.0001

eISBN:

9780199764327

Author

David Coates,editor in chief

David Coates is the Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. His publications include A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Answers to Conservative Arguments (Praeger, 2007) and several sets of works on contemporary political economy and labor politics.

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